Autoimmune Diseases Are Common For 9/11 Survivors – Is There A Link?

Autoimmune Diseases Are Common For 9/11 Survivors – Is There A Link?
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The number of 9/11 victims and First Respondents who develop autoimmune disorders appears to increase in time.  The illnesses range from rheumatoid arthritis to sclerosis under the unexplained group of illnesses. A few are connected to specific organs, while others are systemic and are responsible for body-wide assaults.

Since these illnesses are rare and difficult to identify, there are no concrete cases. The issue has steadily grown up. Numerous individuals have self-reported illnesses, but it proved to be difficult to verify them for the World Trade Center Health Registry.

Researchers still do not know what causes the illnesses in the general community to occur. However, a rising number of research studies on 9/11 victims show that developing diseases may be connected with the event caused by the dangerous dust and the trauma.

Since these illnesses are rare and difficult to identify, there are no concrete cases. The issue has steadily grown up. Numerous  individuals have self-reported illnesses, but it proved to be difficult to verify them for the World Trade Center Health Registry.

“We feel that there is a link. And even more than that, if there is a slight benefit of the doubt, patients should be given the care that they need. I think America really owes a debt to these people, right. This was an attack on America. This was not an attack on lower Manhattan,” stated Dr. Marc Wilkenfeld, who is an expert in chemical exposures.

However, the Health Program for the World Trade Center has a rigorous standard for proof; only epidemiologic research, acknowledged by peers, which explicitly centers on the 9/11 cohort, is considered pertinent.  On the occasion of the last petition, few research papers were identified by federal health officials.


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Jeffrey likes to write about health and fitness topics, being a champion fitness instructor in the past.

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